Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYI think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
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I love mankind, he said, “but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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Beauty will save the world.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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